{"id":321,"date":"2007-11-18T10:41:19","date_gmt":"2007-11-18T16:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davintosh.com\/?p=321"},"modified":"2007-11-18T10:41:19","modified_gmt":"2007-11-18T16:41:19","slug":"kas-evil-twin-the-commercials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/2007\/11\/18\/kas-evil-twin-the-commercials\/just-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Ka&#8217;s Evil Twin \u2014 The Commercials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hLIkjWFNAKI&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I was reminded this morning of a couple of commercials for the Ford SportKa that I saw online a number of years ago. The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ford_Ka#StreetKa_and_SportKa\">SportKa<\/a> is a Europe-only model that was introduced in 1996, and these commercials were broadcast for only a short time in Great Britain before being pulled because of consumer complaints. <\/p>\n<p>There are two commercials in the linked video (or click here to go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hLIkjWFNAKI\">YouTube<\/a>); the Pigeon and the Cat. The Pigeon is hilarious &amp; gets me every time. The cat is right there on the edge and is a bit twisted; gives me a queasy feeling, even knowing the cat&#8217;s demise is entirely computer generated. Hint: Watch the windows.<\/p>\n<p>As for the point of the commercials, the SportKa is supposedly the evil twin to the Ka. The Ka being the wimpy respectable one, and the SportKa&#8230; Not so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reminded this morning of a couple of commercials for the Ford SportKa that I saw online a number of years ago. The SportKa is a Europe-only model that was introduced in 1996, and these commercials were broadcast for only a short time in Great Britain before being pulled because of consumer complaints. There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-just-stuff"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}